A lot has been going on these past few months. Actually it’s been longer than I few months since I’ve really kept up on the blog. I’m sad that I haven’t kept it up consistently because it’s so fun to go back and read all of what we’ve done. So I’m going to start with today and then I’ll go back and write about the milestones that have happened over the past year.
We will be moving soon! I think it was in February that we got a call from our landlord saying that he was putting the house on the market. It really shook us up. We were kind of under the impression that since we signed a new 18 month lease and agreed to pay $60 more a month he wasn’t going to put the house on the market. How silly we were. So taking a note from our previous experience when we first moved to Le Mars we knew that rental properties were very short in supply here. I looked in the newspaper and made some calls but there weren’t any houses available. We consulted our realtor about what were the things that we should do and see if she happened to know about any rental properties. She told me that that big old house that we passed on when we first moved here was going to be available in April. We scheduled a time with her to view the house again and it was much better than I remembered. I was really kicking myself at this point for not just taking that house in the first place. So it was probably that same day that Brett called the landlord to tell him that we would be moving out in April. Brett and I were again under the impression that he (the landlord) was going to let us out of the lease early because of a conversation that he and Brett had had on the phone a few days earlier. The phone conversation didn’t go well at all. The landlord ended up telling Brett that we would be hearing from his attorney. Ahhh!!! The next few days or actually this entire last couple of months have been very stressful. We have really busted our butts to keep the house showing ready. We have left the house every time there was a showing. I left all the lights on and opened the blinds. You know all the things that you would normally do if you were trying to sell your house. We could have totally been jerks and let the house be a disaster area with toys and laundry and dishes all over. When our friends Ryan and Tifany went house hunting here they were accosted by renters of the houses that they looked at. That’s right they were there in the house when they went to view the house. Tifany told me that the lady renting the house that they ended up buying followed her through the house and kept saying stuff like, “You can’t kick us out on the street.” How annoying! Anyway, that’s not us and we wanted to do what we could to help the house sell so I feel like we really went out of our way to make it easy to show this house including Brett adjusting his work schedule so he could be awake for a showing that was in the morning. Sorry for the gripe session it was just a struggle and I thought it was an important part of our history here in Le Mars.
So last night my phone rang and it was the landlord. I didn’t answer it because I didn’t know what to expect especially since we just had received a letter from his attorney.. Yep that’s right he was really holding strong to his threat. Brett and I really weren’t trying to be jerks we just wanted to make sure that we had somewhere for our family to be. We just were looking out for our family. Anyway, he (the landlord) left a message saying that he had received an offer on the house and wanted to make sure with us that we still planned on being out of the house by April 1st. What a relief! I have been praying and hoping that the house would sell so that we wouldn’t have something new hanging over our heads.
A little side note about rental houses here in Le Mars. One of Brett’s buddies from work has been looking for a place to rent here in Le Mars but everyone that he had called on had already been rented. Seriously not much here in ways of renting. Now it’s ending up that this friend of Brett’s might end up renting the big old house that our realtor manages. Now I know you are thinking, “Wait! Isn’t that where you guys are moving? Where are you going?” Well, that’s another story but we are moving farther east in Iowa for a new job. I’ll write about this in another post.
.JPG)
